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Command H does not hide marching ants anymore

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March 5, 2020
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Using a Mac with CC 20. Used to be that CMD H would hide the marching ants of a selection. Now it hides Photoshop. What happened? How do I fix this, or use a different key to hide the ants?

Correct answer rp81591898

Sorry for the confusion. PS 2021 on Mac

Go to

- Edit

-Keyboard Shortcuts

-Select

- View - (Then finally)

- Selection Edges.

Debbie Hughes art

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This has all changed. I have experienced this in Photoshop 24. If you have experienced it in Photoshop 24:

Choose Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts.
Keyboard shortcuts: Menus
Then choose shortcuts for : in tab: Applications Menus
In box, scroll down to Windows
Choose Window > Workspace > Keyboard Shortcuts & Menus and click the Keyboard Shortcuts tab.
In the little box to the right. type Command H.
It will tell you warning this Key command is already in use. click Accept and Go To Conflict to assign a new shortcut to the other command or tool.
there will be a link below saying accept and go to conflict.
Next part is tricky. because I was looking for the selection tools and did not find them easilty. Go through the tools and under SHOW then SELECTION EDGES . Clik on this. Type in Command H as you did before. It will give you the little open box to type to the right. After that it will warn you again that this is already in use. Hit accept anyway, this will change the key command. If you are unsure you can hit cancel.
I was trying to make this easier, if you want the long form via Adobe here is the page go to customize keyboard shortcuts in the Adobe help. helpx.adobe.com

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Mark Fredrickson

Participating Frequently

I really hate this stuff. I still can't get command H to work. Why did this change. It's as bad as the Command F key putting me in search!

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ASINGULARITY

New Participant

See prior fix. This is a quote:

In Photoshop go Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts, go to View, and change the Shortcut for Extras to Cmd-H.

You'll get a warning that this changes an OS shortcut which is fine (I think the OS shortcut changes to Cmd-Ctrl-H). You may need to quit Photoshop and relaunch, but Cmd-H will hide marching ants after that.

Otherwise you can continue to use Cmd-Ctl-H to hide selections."

Per my setup osx Sonoma, M2.

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Mark Fredrickson

Participating Frequently

Thanks. On another thread someone showed how to do it with a nice animation, which I needed because it was impossible for me to find otherwise. I just have to remember to keep saving my workspace to keep it installed when I reset preferences after the usual spinning ball comes back after about ten to twenty hours worth of Photoshop work.

Jeff Arola

Community Expert

Ctrl + H

Jean-François Vibert

Participating Frequently

Hello !

I recently experiment exactly the same problem as you...

On a Macbook Air M1 under Mac OS 12.1 : this is new...

I've trye many different solution, and no succes. Including modifi the text of the Préference Keyboard Shortcuts in Application Support.

Nothing worked...

Any new informations ?

PECourtejoie

Community Expert

@Jean-François Vibert bonjour!

je remarque que CMD+H est listé deux fois, qu'en est-il s'il n'est utilisé que dans l'un des deux raccourcis ? Normalement, il devrait y avoir un message d'erreur, non?

eschercat88

New Participant

I’m using Photoshop 2022, and this worked for me…

Apple > Preference > Keyboard > Shortcuts > App Shortcuts

Select the + and add “No action”
make the shortcut SHIFT-CMD-H.

Hope this helps!

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Bomb155

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bays65084565

New Participant

There is no "view" option in keyboard shortcuts. The view drop down is inactive

rp81591898Correct answer

New Participant

Sorry for the confusion. PS 2021 on Mac

Go to

- Edit

-Keyboard Shortcuts

-Select

- View - (Then finally)

- Selection Edges.

rp81591898

New Participant

Photoshop 2024 on Mac - Guess they changed it again how to get to it!

Go to

- Edit tab

- Keyboard Shortcuts

- View

- Show

- Selection Edges. ---- Type your choice of Keyboard shortcut. Mine is Command H which shows a conflict. I accept the new use for Command H (the old one is Hide Photoshop)

GOOD LUCK Again.!